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FREE BLOG Cybersecurity: Four things operators must do

Cybersecurity is important for healthcare. Data and system breaches could take away patient privacy, destroy their trust in much-needed data collection, cost a bucketload of ransom money or even risk patients’ lives. So what can operators do to protect their data? Here are 4 things we’ve learned from talking to experts recently.
July 21, 2023

FREE BLOG Is it good business to do good?

At a session on ESG at HBI 2023 ('Building a robust ESG framework') all panellists appeared to be on board with the idea that adopting serious ESG strategies is not only good for society and the planet, it's also ultimately good for the business itself and its shareholders. Companies need to shift from thinking of it as a burdensome cost to thinking of it as a necessary investment. Is this true?
June 30, 2023

FREE BLOG Why are countries ignoring the WHO ‘red list’?

In March, the World Health Organisation published an updated list of 55 countries that have reached a critical point when it comes to shortages in their health care workforces. The implication - or ‘recommendation’ - is that wealthier western nations in particular need to cool it when it comes to actively recruiting nurses and doctors from selected countries.
June 16, 2023

FREE BLOG A tough first half 

Deal volume in health care was massively down in the six months to June 2023. Will it get better and where?
June 9, 2023

FREE BLOG AI is in dire need of regulation

From silicon valley to national legislatures, debates around the impact artificial intelligence could have on the future of humanity seem to have reached a new fever pitch in recent weeks.
June 2, 2023

FREE BLOG The German hospital reforms have become a farce

When German health minister Karl Lauterbach proposed his hospital reforms, he probably imagined himself as the hero of the drama, striding across the political stage and heroically redefining an oversupplied market. Instead, increasingly he looks to have penned a farce.
May 26, 2023

FREE BLOG Are some private clinicians effectively licensed drug dealers?

This week the BBC released a panorama episode entitled ‘Private ADHD Clinics Exposed’, in which it went undercover to find that three private clinics in the UK are giving out ADHD prescriptions based on a short and potentially unreliable online assessment delivered by a non-psychiatrist. Is there a wider issue that there is a perverse incentive in private health care to over diagnose and over prescribe?
May 19, 2023
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